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>>himara+(OP)
From the article: "...but Microsoft hasn’t decided whether it wants board representation..."

This is not a good sign. Microsoft the largest $10Bn investor, who is in the middle of pushing through the restructuring of the company, hasn't decided if they want board representation? The only reason you would do that if they want to keep their options open, in the future, to hit OpenAI hard (legally and/or to raid the personnel).

Board representation would come with a fiduciary responsibility and it looks like they may not want that. I could only imagine the intensity of Microsoft senior engineers screaming that they could replicate all of this in-house (not saying whether it's justified or not).

>>g42gre+wu
They may not want it for reasons all their own such as to avoid being seen as conflicted or privy to information that they aren't supposed to have just in case they end up competing with OpenAI. Microsoft legal is in the driving seat for things like this not tech or finance.